Bevendre

r-leostar:

bevendre:

The only complaint that I have with Sun and Moon is that the PSS was taken out and quick link was left in.  I don’t mind the Festival Plaza for what it is, but I wish it wasn’t the only way of interacting with people and accepting trades and battles.

The common complaints about the lack of Super Training, DexNav, changes to fishing, etc. I can understand but at the same time I understand why they were taken out or changed.  The games are already struggling to fit on the 3DS with all that is in them.  I have no doubt that they’ll return or be reintroduced either in the alleged Pokemon Stars that’s rumored for a fall release on the Switch next year, or the Sinnoh remakes that are almost guaranteed by the end of 2018.

({ “struggling”?  wat, also, i think they use each game to test what players like and dislike, also quick link lets you do trade/battle, but you have to be with someone, though i dislike: male still has less hair style then female(i know its a guy, but come on) still no pokemon behind you like hg/ss, needin pokebank to get pokemon from oema/alpha and x/y, when they could’ve just made new pokemon and alolan forms untradeable(by graying them out) and probably not after game story(which even then isn’t very entertaining).  but i do like the poke ride stuff and the z moves})

Yes, struggling.  Sun and Moon are twice the file size as anything in 6th gen, hardly fit on a 3DS cartridge, and have some trouble running consistently because they’re pushing the system to its limits as often as not.  

I’m well aware of how Quick Link works, I just find it rather stupid that that was made a full and separate system when having the PSS kept in wouldn’t have been much more difficult and served the same and greater functions.  Again, that’s the only complaint that I have, everything’s still there, it’s just less convenient and consistent when going through the Festival Plaza.

On to the issues you raised:

Of course there’s less options for male customization.  Even with fewer options for males than for females there’s a LOT more customization than there was in X and Y, and I needn’t say how much customization was in any game prior.  The only real issue with the customization is that certain colors are version-locked for purchase, but even then they’re obtainable because you can dye your clothes yourself.

As much as I liked the Pokemon following behind in HGSS, people have got to understand that it won’t happen again, not unless the hardware gets a significant upgrade in available memory for a game.   HGSS worked because the movement cycle was 2-7 frames of pixel animation, taken from the Pokemon screen, they cannot possibly get away with that now.  We’re over 800 species, and bordering on 1,000 unique sprites, each with a minimum of 1 additional color palette.  Being able to render ALL of them with full movement cycles would take a lot of coding and memory, which while I’d like it I’d rather have that used elsewhere.  

Of course you have to use Pokebank to transfer Pokemon across generations. The only time that wasn’t the case was in the transfer from 1st gen to 2nd gen, and that required a number of requirements to be met.  The trading functions aren’t 1:1, stats are generally altered between generations, as are movesets.  It’s less intensive and easier to program the transference of Pokemon through an external server like Pokebank than to code in particular restrictions for particular Pokemon going to and from versions.  A much more frustrating and time consuming process was in the transfer from 4th gen to 5th, and the method now is no different than it was going from 5th to 6th.

There is a postgame story, namely tracking down, catching and studying Ultra Beasts, as well as defending your title as the champion by battling special and new trainers that weren’t in the main game, as well as other events and battles that can only be done after you’re champion.  Sun and Moon have the most extensive post game for first entries in a generation that we’ve seen in a LONG time.